Trump & The Virus w/ Top Health Reporter Dan Diamond
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
What happened behind the scenes as America failed to adequately respond to the coronavirus? What is happening right now? Bill talks with Dan Diamond, one of the best reporters covering healthcare. Diamond has broken major stories on the Trump Administration's response to the Covid 19 Pandemic. He is the author of Politico Pulse, the highly-respected daily newsletter on healthcare. He is also the host of the weekly podcast Pulse Check.
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| 1:04.6 | Hello, friends and neighbors, and welcome back to the Bill Press pod. |
| 1:13.3 | You know, even for veteran White House reporters, it's tough covering the coronavirus story for several reasons. One, because it changes so fast. Every day the number of cases goes up, as does the number of deaths, and every day |
| 1:18.6 | new steps are taken to try to contain it. Two, because there are conflicting signals sent by |
| 1:25.0 | city, state, and federal officials about what people |
| 1:28.1 | ought to do. Go to work or stay home, go to restaurants or not, wash your hands or not, |
| 1:33.9 | and three, and most troubling of all, for two weeks, Donald Trump insisted we were in total |
| 1:40.2 | control of this virus, but now suddenly he says we could be in serious trouble until July or |
| 1:46.9 | August. So what's really happening? Well, to find out, many of us turn to reporters who know a lot more |
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